You can���t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance, goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development
Most adults want to change aspects of their personality. However, previous studies have provided mixed evidence on whether such change goals can be successfully implemented, perhaps partly due to neglecting the goals’ importance and feasibility as well as the experience of trait-relevant situations and states. This study examined associations between change goals and changes in self-reported Big Five traits assessed four times across two years in an age-heterogeneous sample of 382 adults (255 younger adults, Mage = 21.6 years; 127 older adults, Mage = 67.8 years). We assessed trait-relevant momentary situations and states in multiple waves of daily diaries over the first year ( M = 43.9 day…
sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_0890207020962332 - Supplemental material for You can’t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance, goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_0890207020962332 for You can’t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance, goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development by Anna J Lücke, Martin Quintus, Boris Egloff and Cornelia Wrzus in European Journal of Personality